Yesterday social arts community and two time Webware 100 winner Deviant Art released a beautiful mobile version of its site that’s been optimized for Apple’s iPhone. I’ve been playing around with it this afternoon and it’s a wonderfully simple way to explore the various art mediums that have made the community so popular. To access [...]

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BURLINGAME, Calif.–Geography buffs tantalized by the quantity of geographic information hidden away among countless municipal computer systems have something to cheer about.

Combining Portland, Ore., geographic data and Google Earth can help show how long it takes to drive from a given point. Blue areas can be reached in five minutes, for example.
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The [...]

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Online advertising is starting to feel the effects of a tepid economy, industry analysis firm PubMatic said in a release Tuesday.
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Based on data from “billions of ad impressions” and several thousand online publishers in its AdPrice Index, PubMatic asserted that clicks per thousand monetization rates (CPMs) dropped between March and [...]

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DailyLit, which offers entire books over e-mail and RSS in daily serialized chunks every day, is now offering information from Wikipedia on various topics.
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The free service would be perfect for people who are short on time and don’t mind digesting literature and information in 5 minutes at a time on their handheld.
The Wikipedia-based topics [...]

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Yahoo now offers a beta version of its Delicious browser plug-in for online bookmarking functions.
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Delicious, Yahoo’s “social bookmarking” site that lets people archive, tag, and share Web site addresses, got its start closely tied to the Firefox open-source Web browser. Now Yahoo is branching out to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, too.

The company released a beta [...]

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